I used to bag throughout the Season, but this past Summer I started mulching the clippings and I've noticed that putting the clippings back into the lawn does make a big difference. I think I'm gonna keep mulching in the summer, and then when the leaves fall I bag/vacuum them up. I'll also bag as part of the Spring- Clean up, When the lawn is very long, and of course for the people that perfer their lawn to only be bagged!

The only bagging I do is when the customer wants his bermuda scalped the first of the season. Was charging 2x mow price....after reading lawnsite, I know I should be charging 3x mow price and $3 per bag if I haul it.

I look forward to just a few years from now, when the biofuel industry as a whole turns to the commercial mowing industry and begins to ASK FOR the bulk of our clippings for use as ethanol! I envision township and county operated clipping and brush drop-off 'stations', that, of course, would be voluntary, but at some point may actually pay the 'dumper' a small amount for their 'clean' loads! (Smart investors, right now, are putting their money into things like that: ANY type of biosolid recycling, and smart research into feasability of use of different types of wastes for biofuel for the future, and how they would be best transformed, and the logistics of how it would get done.)

I look forward to just a few years from now, when the biofuel industry as a whole turns to the commercial mowing industry and begins to ASK FOR the bulk of our clippings for use as ethanol! I envision township and county operated clipping and brush drop-off 'stations', that, of course, would be voluntary, but at some point may actually pay the 'dumper' a small amount for their 'clean' loads! (Smart investors, right now, are putting their money into things like that: ANY type of biosolid recycling, and smart research into feasability of use of different types of wastes for biofuel for the future, and how they would be best transformed, and the logistics of how it would get done.)

Our contract states: Clippings will be discharged or mulched. If they want it bagged we charge per cut $5 and leave it with them or $8 and haul it off. We don't want to do allot of bagging, it take way to much time and $$$ to dispose of all the grass. Even in the fall we won't do it unless there paying for a "Fall clean-up"

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I look forward to just a few years from now, when the biofuel industry as a whole turns to the commercial mowing industry and begins to ASK FOR the bulk of our clippings for use as ethanol! I envision township and county operated clipping and brush drop-off 'stations', that, of course, would be voluntary, but at some point may actually pay the 'dumper' a small amount for their 'clean' loads! (Smart investors, right now, are putting their money into things like that: ANY type of biosolid recycling, and smart research into feasability of use of different types of wastes for biofuel for the future, and how they would be best transformed, and the logistics of how it would get done.)

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It would be more like a forced requirement to give them to the township. Just like the hundreds of townships that make it mandatory to recycle for "their" profit